The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux
University of Nebraska Press (2020) 304 pages Review by john Peacock Editor Daniel Beveridge, a lecturer in Dakota history at First Nations University of Canada, calls this book a rope made up of four strands, representing four voices: his own editorial voice, the traditional oral voices of Canadian Wahpeton Dakota elders Samuel Mniyo and Robert goodvoice, and another kind of voice in the form of pictographs that the Wahpeton artist Jim Sapa made for his own use in the annual Dakota Medicine Dance. The Red Road Dance ritually performs the ancestors’ Red Road journey from far-off eastern lan...
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